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2 people killed in mine blast in Myanmar
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-05-13 11:32
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YANGON - Two people have been killed and three others injured in a mine blast in Myanmar's southeastern Kayin state, the official daily New Light of Myanmar reported Thursday.
A passenger bus, which set out from Papun township's Winmaung township, hit the mine on the Kyangin road at a point between Melaikkyauk and Metoh villages on Tuesday.
The driver and a passenger died in the incident, the report said, adding that the three injured were rushed to Bilin township's People's Hospital for treatment.
The authorities charged the anti-government ethnic armed group of Kayin National Union (KNU) with planting the mine.
The police authorities had also accused the KNU of masterminding a series of grenade attacks on a water festival pandal in Yangon on April 15, claiming the capture of Wai Phyo Aung, one of the four suspected bombers linked with a terrorist organization -- the Vigorous Burmese Students Warriors (VBSW) in the connection.
The other three have escaped to a neighboring country, the authorities said.
The water festival bomb blasts killed 10 people and injured 168 others.
In a single month of April, besides the water festival bomb attacks, others respectively occurred at a toll gate in Muse check point in Shan state on April 14 run by the private Asia World Company, at the compound of a check point in southeastern Kayin state's Kawkareik, injuring three persons, and at four worksites of the Myitsone hydropower dam project in the upper reaches of the Ayeyawaddy River in northernmost Kachin state with 10 bombs on April 17, injuring one person and destroying two temporary buildings and six motor vehicles.
Several unexploded bombs were also found at the hydropower project sites.
Moreover, another series of three grenade attacks on the Thaukyegat hydropower project in Myanmar's Bago division on April 27 injured at least four people as reported.
